Re: Horizontal scrolling & reflow

To my knowledge the Low Vision Task force was made up of western users and
a primary goal of the SC is that low vision users wouldn't have to read
half a line, scroll to the right to finish the line, scroll to the left to
start the next line etc. We did the best we could to translate that to the
eastern experience.

Under your example of western text that is wider than the viewport, but the
block of text does not extend beyond the vertical boundaries of the
viewport, I believe they would have still have to do the zig zag to read
the end of each line. It's not a problem at the "text block" level, its at
the "line of text" level.

This is my experience in accommodating low vision users.

Wayne feel free to correct me if I'm not getting this understanding of the
problem right.

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:56 PM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
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> For most people using a phone, they work fine assuming you know there is
> horizontal scrolling. On the phone you can swipe horizontally to scroll
> that section.
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> Personally, I think it’s harder to have sections that have independent
> scrolling in the *same* direction as page scrolling (e.g. iframes or
> maps), they catch me out every time.
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> There are other considerations (e.g. screenreader usage), but if the
> visual design makes it clear, I haven’t found it problematic in itself.
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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> *From: *Wayne Dick
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I always try to think how these scenarios would play out on a mobile
> phone. The presentation is usually linear. So, there would be bands of
> content that were either entirely vertical or entirely horizontal. Has
> anyone looked at these cases on a phone?
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> Best Wayne
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